Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-43.576389 172.773353
Verbatim locality:
N.Z., Canterbury, Port Hills, Sumner, Scarborough Hill
Verbatim collector:
Sykes WR 266/87
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
3-NOV-1987
Start date:
1987-11-03
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Georeferences:
New Zealand Map Series 260:
N36 91- 37- (WGS84 -43.569713 172.770834)
Habitat:
Roadside Macraonesian scrub beneath pine canopy on slope.
Notes:
Scattered plants. Mostly past full flowering on more open slopes. Arborescent plant with "trunk" 20-30 cm x 1.5 cm. No proper leaf rosettes present when collected. Leaves on the few small side branches, obovate- spathulate, flat and green, with cillate margin. Infl with few bracts at full flowering, c/12 x 9cm. ovoid with rounded top, glandular-puberulent. Calyx lobes 1.5-2mm long, triangular. Petals (7)-8-9 in number, golden, little difference in whorl length. Styles 2.5-3mm long, greenish-yellow. Scales c.1mm long, broadly rectangular, whitish, translucent, emarginate or erose.